Included in Q230, "- DO YOU HAVE ANY CONDITIONS LIKE THESE?"Prompt card 5 was shown which included "BEHAVIOURAL OR EMOTIONAL DISORDER (Specify)", "DEPENDENCE ON DRUGS OR ALCOHOL" and "SLOW AT LEARNING OR UNDERSTANDING" among a list of 41 conditions.

Q448 asked "DO YOU HAVE ANY (OTHER) CONDITIONS THAT HAVE LASTED OR ARE EXPECTED TO LAST FOR SIX MONTHS OR MORE, FOR EXAMPLE:" Prompt card 'H' was shown, including: "Behavioural or emotional disorder", "Dependence on drugs or alcohol" and "slow at learning or understanding" among a list of 23 conditions.

Q552 asked "...DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER CONDITIONS THAT HAVE LASTED OR ARE EXPECTED TO LAST, FOR 6 MONTHS OR MORE. FOREXAMPLE:" Prompt card '21' was shown with a list of 14 conditions. Among them were: "Behavioural or emotional disorders", "Dependence on drugs or alcohol", "feeling anxious" and "feeling depressed".

The Kessler 10 instrument for measuring psychological distress was also asked of all respondents aged 18 years and over. This may have also had some context effect on the level of response.

Estimate '000

370.7

723.3

1,775.0

Standardised rate per 1,000 population(a)

22.6

40.5

93.8

95 % confidence intervals on standardised rates

21.5 - 23.7

37.0 - 44.2

90.8 - 96.8

Comments

In addition to the improved specificity of prompting and the context effects from other questions, a greater level of public awareness (and acceptance) may have influenced the higher rates of disclosure of mental health conditions.

(a) Age standardised to 2001 NHS benchmark population.(b) The codes shown were released in the corrigendum to this publication on 22 July 03.

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